Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation

#Reputation

None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have

#Rules

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only...

#Right

The art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in...

#Richness

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

#Reward

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind

#Revolution

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

#Silence, #Wisdom

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth

#Sin

Skepticism is slow suicide

#Skepticism

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider...

#Self Knowledge, #Self-esteem, #Self-respect

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow

#Self Sacrifice

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

#Elegance, #Self Reliance